An-Najah Research Most Cited in Palestine
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has recently evaluated research citations for 2000 top international universities for 25000 academic institutions around the world. The ranking reviewed more than one million research papers published on Google Scholar, an international research database which includes most peer-reviewed online journals.
An-Najah National University was ranked first in Palestine with 7302 citations until December 2015. Harvard University was ranked first in the world; whereas, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology was ranked first in the Arab world.
According to Google Scholar, An-Najah has produced 666 research papers with 10 citations and an impact factor of 63.
The website also shows the top 20 researchers from An-Najah, namely:
- Professor Sameer Khdair (2983)
- Dr. Sabri Naser (1244)
- Prof. Waleed Sweileh (1115)
- Dr. Johnny Amer (1018)
- Prof. Hamdallah Bearat (1015)
- Prof. Ismael Warrad (1014)
- Prof. Ansam Sawalha (913)
- Dr. Saed Zyoud (909)
- Dr. Mohammad Al-Masri (809)
- Prf. Hikmat Hilal (887)
- Dr. Tamer Khatib (841)
- Dr. Hani Al-Ahmed (782)
- Prof. Ghaleb Adwan (755)
- Dr. Kamel Adwan (747)
- Dr. Samah Al-Jabi (746)
- Dr. Ayman Husain (707)
- Prof. Saleem Haj Yahya (688)
- Prof. Marwan Mahmoud (586)
- Prof. Ya'qoub Batta (544)
- Prof. Abdul Naser Zeid (472)
On this occasion, Professor Maher Natsheh, Acting President of An-Najah said that the university aspires to compete with international academic institutions; therefore, it aims at encouraging research through publishing in international periodicals such as Thompson Reuters and journals with good impact factors.
Notes:
- The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of Universities, is a ranking system for the world's universities based on a composite indicator that takes into account both the volume of the Web contents (number of web pages and files) and the visibility and impact of those web publications according to the number of external inlinks (site citations) they received. The ranking is published by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located in Madrid.
- Released in November 2004, Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
- To see the evaluation results, please click here.
